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He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
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Verse 21. Times, in honour of the blessed Trinity. Menochius.—He puts himself in this posture, as if the co-operate with God in warming the child; as Eliseus did, (4 Kennicott. 4:34,) as well as Saint Paul, (Acts 20:10,) and S. Benedict. Saint Gregory Dial. ii. 32. This posture represented the condescension of Jesus Christ in assuming our nature, to give us life; and the Old Testament affords few more striking figures of this union. Calmet. Saint Augustine ser. 201. de Temp. Saint Bernard xvi. in Cant. Tirinus.
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